Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Crossing over Railroad Tracks in Burbank
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Though the facility has some utility - and preserves earlier walk/bike access, it's the kind of hellscape that only a freeway traffic engineer can love.
Dutch Lessons for the Bay Area
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If Bay Area planners want to know how to make the region safe and livable, just look across the ocean
Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency
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Joe Biden is president — the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- Joe Biden inaugurated as U.S. President (AP/Daily News)
- CA passes 3 million COVID cases; vaccine supplies are low (Mercury News)
- Local governments ask for pandemic assistance (Press Democrat)
- Sacramento votes to eliminate all single family zoning within city (Sacramento Bee)
- BART hopes federal relief funds will help balance its budget, for now (Local News Matters)
- San Jose transit agencies to get COVID relief (San Jose Spotlight)
- We need education on civic engagement (Capitol Weekly)
- SFMTA board to vote on changes to weaken Better Market Street project (SF Examiner)
- Concord, CA, launches rental registry (Local News Matters)
- CA bills propose turning empty shopping centers into housing (Bloomberg)
- Why do people oppose duplexes? (California Planning & Development Report)
- Thanks, but corporate philanthropy is not the answer (Crosscut)
- Something else to worry about: overuse of underground water, and collapse of aquifers (Wired)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Metro Proposes $73.2M Loan to Caltrans for Overruns on 5 Freeway Widening through Burbank
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Next week, the Metro board Construction Committee will consider throwing good money after bad – on a mismanaged freeway widening project through Burbank.
Four Unanswered Questions about Biden’s Transportation Relief Plan
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Transit advocates are applauding President-elect Biden's COVID-19 relief plan, but wonder whether it will be enough to save the green modes that millions of Americans rely on.
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- The fight to make big oil pay for climate change heads to Supreme Court (SF Chronicle)
- Political challenges California faces – a primer (CalMatters)
- Low wages benefit employers and cost taxpayers (The Atlantic)
- How California ensured the integrity of the vote (CalMatters)
- Anonymous callers threaten California lawmakers (Sacramento Bee)
- Public housing opponents decry not-yet-built project as “slum” – anonymously (SF Chronicle)
- Outgoing CA attorney general files another lawsuit against Trump EPA on lack of regulation of airline emissions (Fox40)
- Goleta considers a road diet (Independent)
- Biden pushes high speed rail, electric vehicles (Visalia Times Delta)
- Biden administration’s climate plan (USA Today)
- How an Oakland program is fighting homelessness (KQED)
- One project in L.A. shows housing homeless can happen quickly, cheaply (LA Times)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
Today’s Headlines
| | No Comments- California has plenty of money right now but only because of a staggering wealth gap (CalMatters)
- Podcast: High-speed rail, saving public transit, ZEVs (Capital Public Radio)
- Hey, industry: There are already plenty of Black bicyclists, you’re just ignoring them (VeloNews)
- San Leandro plans a major road diet (Mercury News)
- Making community engagement more accessible and inclusive (Route Fifty)
- USDOT rules on autonomous vehicles would allow some of them to bypass crash standards (Reuters)
- Fuel economy of cars and light trucks is decreasing, not improving (Green Car Congress)
- Should oil companies be worried about some of their employees? (Heated)
- Monterey Bay power plant is now an electric battery powerhouse (SF Chronicle)
- We need housing for people, not cars (Planetizen)
- Berkeley could ban sales of gas vehicles by 2027 (SFist)
- CA Asm Kevin McCarthy, who supported efforts to overturn election, faces a dilemma (Bakersfield.com)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
SGV Connect: Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez, and a 2021 Preview
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Welcome to the first SGV Connect Podcast of 2021. In this week's episode, Kris speaks with Alhambra Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez before Kris and Damien give a preview of what to look forward to in 2021.
L.A. County Seeks Public Input on New L.A. River Plan
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The new L.A. County river plan includes bike/walk trails, big projects, strategies to address affordability and housing, and more.
Cheap Federal Loans Key to Infrastructure
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There's $100 billion in low-cost loans that the U.S. DOT can lend tomorrow for infrastructure projects, including rail and transit.